Houston Bar Association names new officers, with Brent Benoit at helm

Published 2:13 am, Wednesday, June 6, 2012

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Brent A. Benoit, a partner at Locke Lord LLP, is the new president of the Houston Bar Association. With more than 11,200 members, the HBA is the fifth largest metropolitan bar association in the nation. Benoit succeeded Denise Scofield of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP at the Houston Bar Association’s Annual Dinner Meeting on May 24 at River Oaks Country Club.

Benoit, 40, has served on the HBA board of directors since 2007, holding the offices of president-elect, second vice president, treasurer and director. He chaired the HBA’s Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program, which provides pro bono legal services to low-income Houstonians, and the Dispute Resolution Center, which offers community mediation and other no-cost litigation alternatives. A fellow of the Houston Bar Foundation and the Texas Bar Foundation, Benoit serves on the board of directors of Lone Star Legal Aid and is a member of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Board of Visitors. He has also previously served as a member of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Advance Team and as a director of Cancer Counseling, Inc.

Benoit earned his B.B.A summa cum laude from Houston Baptist University and his law degree with high honors from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of Order of the Coif, Chancellors, and the Texas Law Review. From 1999-2001, he served as Special Assistant Attorney General for the State of Texas under Attorney General John Cornyn. Benoit is a partner at Locke Lord LLP, where his practice focuses on securities litigation, complex commercial litigation, and internal and governmental investigations.